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Derek Bailey
English
Musician
About the author
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#People
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Music
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Songs
I don't research anything.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Research
Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Want
#Being
#Music
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Sense
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#People
For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Work
#Company
For me, playing is about playing with other people.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#People
I am reactive.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Music
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#People
#Work
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Idea
#Effect
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Play
#Absence
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Murder
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Business
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Circumstances
#Music
#Theory
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
Derek Bailey,
English
Musician
#Now
#People
#Being
#Fact